What I can do is first register the employee via a register form, then once he logs in ask him/her for the profile picture. *Can I do that this way? *
If I do it this way, I don't have to change my model in any way. Dana nedjelja, 13. rujna 2020. u 18:11:18 UTC+2 korisnik coolguy napisao je: > not sure about the purpose of showing that example in Django documentation > while its comments are clear that "object will not have been saved to the > database yet, so if it uses the default AutoField, *it might not yet have > a value for its primary key field*." > > so that's the reason for having None with file path. > > In this approach what i can see is to save the employee first without file > and then edit and select the file. > > I would not use this approach and rather keep it simple as followed: > > photo = models.ImageField(upload_to='employee/%Y/%m/%d/', blank=True) > > On Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 5:41:18 AM UTC-4 [email protected] > wrote: > >> Hey coolguy, >> >> thanks for responding. After I changed that line as you suggested that >> error is solved, *but when I add the user through the admin interface, I >> get None as the ID* (the folder that gets created in the */media/users* >> is titled *None*). I'm not sure if this is expected behavior. >> >> I haven't added the registration or the login yet, so maybe the ID gets a >> value when someone is actually registering. >> >> Let me know. >> >> Best, >> Mislav >> >> Dana subota, 12. rujna 2020. u 21:57:21 UTC+2 korisnik coolguy napisao je: >> >>> I wanted to see your model to understand but i realized after my last >>> post that you are using "instance.user.id" while your employee instance >>> does not have user field. (had to go somewhere urgently) >>> return >>> "employees/media/users/{0}/profile_picture.{1}".format(instance.user.id, >>> extension) >>> >>> change it as follow and remove user from it. >>> return "employees/media/users/{0}/profile_picture.{1}".format( >>> instance.id <http://instance.user.id/>, extension) >>> >>> It should work... >>> >>> On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 3:17:28 PM UTC-4 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>> >>>> coolguy here is the complete Employee model: >>>> >>>> class Employee(models.Model): #TODO: Double-check this >>>> username = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True) >>>> email = models.EmailField() >>>> password = models.CharField(max_length=50) >>>> first_name = models.CharField(max_length=150) >>>> last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100) >>>> website = models.URLField(max_length=200, blank=True) >>>> >>>> profile_picture = models.ImageField(upload_to=get_upload_path, >>>> blank=True, null=True) >>>> >>>> def __str__(self): >>>> return str(self.first_name) + str(self.last_name) >>>> >>>> *Why do I need the foreign key to User in the first place?* I don't >>>> recall seing the foreign key to User in any one of the tutorials. >>>> Dana subota, 12. rujna 2020. u 20:20:11 UTC+2 korisnik coolguy napisao >>>> je: >>>> >>>>> Please share the complete employee model. It seems you are missing >>>>> User foreign key in it. >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 2:03:20 PM UTC-4 >>>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey guys, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have the following code in models.py file in one of my apps: >>>>>> >>>>>> def get_upload_path(instance, filename): >>>>>> extension = filename.split('.')[-1] >>>>>> return "employees/media/users/{0}/profile_picture.{1}".format( >>>>>> instance.user.id, extension) >>>>>> >>>>>> class Employee(models.Model): >>>>>> # some attributes here >>>>>> profile_picture = models.ImageField(upload_to=get_upload_path, >>>>>> blank=True, null=True) >>>>>> >>>>>> I am getting the following error when I try to add an Employee via >>>>>> the admin interface: >>>>>> >>>>>> AttributeError at /admin/employees/employee/add/ >>>>>> >>>>>> 'Employee' object has no attribute 'user' >>>>>> >>>>>> *I don't know where this error is stemming from.* I took the >>>>>> get_upload_path function from the official Django FIleField >>>>>> documentation >>>>>> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/models/fields/#filefield>. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any ideas as to what is going on here? >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, >>>>>> Mislav >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/428c96ea-d71b-4174-a8e7-ff5ad45f5ec3n%40googlegroups.com.
